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More Signs of Falling Prices
Have Little Impact on Stocks

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Tim Annett The Wall Street Journal Online

Updated May 16, 2003 4:53 p.m. ET

Stocks spent Friday in suspended animation, as investors seemed to shrug off a fresh batch of weak economic data that heightened concern about falling prices, and ended the trading session virtually where they began.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined modestly, as word that consumer prices eroded in April didn't trigger the sort of spiraling selloff that has been a hallmark of the bear market. The Dow industrials finished at...